Long Beach State Sports : it

There is room for a mid-major to do well, and even excel, in the new NIL environment, especially one that does not have football (it allows for those $$ to focus on BB). It takes vision, some creativity and entrepreneurship, risk and faith.

Unfortunately, Long Beach State has none of those right now. The problem is that Athletics got put into receivership when Conolley decided she couldn't deal with it anymore, and Athletics is being allowed to die a slow painful death.

The new President doesn't seem to have any experience dealing with Athletics, but let's hope he understands the value it brings and will at least insist that if we do it, we do it a greater level of competence and pride.

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Nowadays to be a Division 1 athletic program it takes money and lots of it! My opinion of the future of LBSU athletics is a sad one but looks like it will happen. Unless we get some great coaches our basketball programs will probably never recover. To continually restock a whole program at the mid-major level, and have coaches in place that can't really coach is a toxic situation. Baseball presently is bordering on a lower level. While both volleyball programs and softball are doing fairly well they are not money makers. (except LB Men's Volleyball) I would think in the not too distant future we will probably be Division 2 in everything but Men's Volleyball! It doesn't take much money to compete, there are only 37 teams playing it, and when it doesn't leak the Pyramid is one of the finest facilities and floors to play on. That's just one mans opinion. What do other people out there think?